skate

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• Skate

  ·vi To move on skates. II. Skate ·noun A metallic runner with a frame shaped to fit the sole of a s...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• skate

  n. The New Zealand fish calleda Skate is Raja nasuta, a different speciesof the same genus as the E...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• friar-skate

  The Raia oxyrinchus, or sharp-nosed ray. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• mavis-skate

  The sharp-nosed ray. (See friar-skate.) ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• skate-lurker

  A cant word for a begging impostor dressed as a sailor. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book